On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 03:54:22AM +0200, Benoît Rouits wrote: > Sorry if i was taken seriously. I just wanted to translate my > understanding of the link, which was today pretty refreshing to me. No need to be sorry ! > Well, it's as crazy as trying to approximate a sine with an endless > polynom... (but i still consider that fun :-) The 'Laws of Sound' remind me a bit of the way chemistry evolved just before the really fundamental issues started to be understood, e.g. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory>... Not entirely stupid as an idea, but it leads nowhere. If anyone would formulate such a theory today, it would be taken either as a joke or as a sign of complete ignorance. And if it goes on for years, as is the case with this 'audio format', it's no longer a joke. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
